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25 Saturday Dec 2021

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today I’ve been vacillating between joy and sadness…

joy at spending time this morning online with the kids in Ottawa as we opened our gifts;-)… they were in the sleigh, lol…

sadness that I am here alone, even if at my own choice…

joy, at spending time with my grandson and his girlfriend in the garage around the fire pit exchanging presents…

sadness that my beloved isn’t here…

joy, that my dinner was delicious… my favourite roast chicken, homemade stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy and turnip…

it looked a little beige, but tasted delicious…

sadness that I wasn’t able to see the rest of my Winnipeg family…

and back to joy as I remember I am home safe and healthy on this Christmas Day…

yup, up and down…

lockdown…

19 Sunday Dec 2021

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yesterday I made the decision to go into my own personal lockdown…

it was a very hard decision at this time of year, but I have been struggling with the worry of getting sick after all these months of taking such care…

so, my Monday/Tuesday group will meet by Skype tomorrow for our Christmas celebration… I’d ordered a charcuterie board and I will divide it up with some veggies… two of my friends will pick up gifts and then drop off the snack packages before our call…

lunch and goodies via Skype… just like we’ve done before, lol…

and I won’t be having my grandson over for lunch on Christmas Day, although possibly he will stop by for a short visit in the garage… or go to my daughter’s for Christmas dinner…

presents will be picked up, phone and video calls made…

I have all the things I need in the freezer (I think) to make a lovely chicken dinner on Saturday…

another solo Christmas, and although I will miss everyone, I feel I will be safe…

and at this point that seems the most important thing;-)…

booster…

16 Thursday Dec 2021

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got a great surprise today;-)…

I’ve had a booster shot scheduled for the second week of January at my doctor’s office and had checked with a nearby drugstore to see if I could get one sooner as the rules recently changed… unfortunately there were no appointments left at the moment…

got a call this morning from a friend as one of them wasn’t able to get the vaccine today and they offered me the spot, after checking with the pharmacy…

left home at 10:30, wearing my KN95 mask and was back, all boosted, by 10:50;-)…

just last night I heard that this mask is currently the best protection…

very relieved to have all 3 shots as there are plans for a small gathering on Christmas…

what a great feeling…

tags…

12 Sunday Dec 2021

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what a lovely day…

my grandson came over with a bunch of things I’d asked for…

one of which was this cute tree pillow to go with the Joy pillow from the other day…

we had a delicious lunch of roast chicken, potatoes, gravy and carrots…

a lovely visit and off he and Indi went…

then I spent time wrapping a number of presents… such fun… and I used some of my recent Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers gift tags…

those tags have come in very handy;-)…

joyful…

11 Saturday Dec 2021

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today there was extra joy;-)…

one of my gifts from Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers was the smallest gift tag with the word joy cut out…

and a bit later the Joy pillow I ordered online arrived… it is exactly what I was hoping for…

it was lucky that I looked out the window as two parcels were sitting on the step… no one rang the doorbell or knocked…

the second was a gift from my kids for me… I will wrap the box up tomorrow and put it under the tree;-)…

the day was joyful…

steps…

04 Saturday Dec 2021

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had a quiet day… spent it remembering all the wonderful Christmas and birthday memories with my beloved… he would have turned 73 today;-)…

just last night I hung up his stocking at the top of the stairs once the small trees were on the steps…

I did giggle a bit, because he had trouble with his balance and he always felt the stuff on the stairs took up all the space on the steps…

I made burgers and fries for dinner which was one of his favourite meals…

it was delicious…

lots of wonderful memories;-)…

bonbons…

02 Thursday Dec 2021

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last year I had a great advent calendar and when it was finished I saved the wooden box it came in…

Canadian Chocoholic made inserts for it and mine came last week… it took me a good portion of an afternoon to construct the paper drawers… lots of folding and bending, lol…

my grandson took the calendar to Decadence Chocolates and Helen filled it with her bonbons…

got it back yesterday and had my first bonbon… yum…

what a lovely treat;-),,,

magnets…

01 Wednesday Dec 2021

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a week or so ago, I cleaned all of the various bits and pieces off the front of the fridge…

put the container with the 24 magnets on it ready for Advent… my daughter sent them to me years ago… they covered two muffin tins and each held a tiny treat as they were opened daily during Advent…

then I put them away carefully🤪… and I didn’t find them until last year, lol… I am happy to use them this year, especially as I still knew where they were…

I think I might start with the 24th and then count back until Christmas;-)…

guess I better turn the magnets around, lol…

this morning I put up the first one…

sliding…

27 Saturday Nov 2021

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this morning the snowploughs came down the street and filled in the sidewalk and left a bit of snow in the driveway…

they also ploughed a big slice of my grass so that the fire hydrant is accessible… it will be interesting to see how it looks in the spring…

something I’ve learned over the last few years is that it needs to be shovelled as quickly as possible, so that it doesn’t turn into a solid lump of ice which can’t be moved…

I had finished the end of the sidewalk and was just starting on the bottom of the driveway when my grandson arrived and finished it off…

everything was icy… it had rained a bit last night and then froze so the cement was slick…

I was happy that he finished the driveway because my boots were slip sliding away…

but it was all done in a short time and hopefully the ice will melt over the next day or so… if it doesn’t I have a supply of ice melter that I can put on the ground…

spaghetti…

21 Sunday Nov 2021

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my grandson brought over some items he had picked up for me and stayed for dinner…

we had fresh spaghetti (which we picked up last week) and meatballs with a tomato sauce I made last week…

our meal was finished off with garlic bread and a salad…

a lovely visit and Christmas wishes discussed;-)…

hard to believe that there are only 34 days until the big day…